خطاب بہ جوانان اسلام
تجھے آبا سے اپنے کوئی نسبت ہو نہیں سکتیکہ تو گفتار وہ کردار، تو ثابت وہ سےارا
English translation
You cannot have any relationship with your ancestors; you are talk, they were action, you are stars, they were planets.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 of 12 in “خطاب بہ جوانان اسلام” (Addressed To The Youth Of Islam) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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